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Comment by DeminRamst

What is this? Skulls attached to skulls attached to a skull handle with skull horns and skull bottom thingo. Not to mention, these must be some seriously hard arsed bones to punch through plate, flesh, AND bones...

coo'

Comment by caridor

Now a fantastic weapon for a palladin tank!Im going to compare to troggbane here

Assuming that your gemming this with a +30 stamina gem, this thing has 134 stamina on it, beating troggbane by 35.You lose strength but as of yet, strength seems to give negligable amounts of parry (if any, I know blizz intends to implement str = parry for all classes, not just DKs).

However, the weapon speed is the main thing.With the new rotation seeming to use Crusader Strike at every other GCD, this is a HUGE boost to threat.

In my experiments last night on a training dummy

Troggbane - average crusader strike was 2,245Pummeler - average was 3,469 Thats an increase of 1,224 damage crusader strike.

This weapon allows you to gen almost 1k extra threat per second. Im unsure if the attack power vs strength makes Shield better but overall, Im taking this along with me. Im a dwarf so this gives me expertise from mace specialisation. You can reforge away some of that nasty crit into hit but dodge, parry, expertise or mastery are all worth doing.

Keep this for threat and keep a proper tanking weapon in the bags for when survival is paramount.